Experiencing Society and the Lived Welfare State

1: Introduction: Pertti Haapala, Minna Harjula, Heikki Kokko -- Part I: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches -- 2. Social History of Experiences: A Theoretical-Methodological Approach; Heikki Kokko and Minna Harjula -- 3: The Challenges or Narrating the Welfare State in the Age of Social Media: A Narrative-Theoretical Approach; Maria Mäkelä -- Part II: Experiences from Welfare Systems -- 4: Stories of Initiates: The Lived Experience of Female Social Workers in the Implementation of the Welfare State in Chile, 1925–50; Maricela Gonzáles and Paula Caffarena -- 5: Previdência Social as an Experience of Society: A Case-Study of Civil Servants in the Portuguese New State, 1933–74; Ana Carina Azevedo -- 6: A Biographical Aaccount of the Social Welfare State in Late Colonial Singapore, 1945–65; Ho Chi Tim -- Part III: Agency and Experience "From Below" -- 7: Voices of the Poor: Negotiations of Social Rights in Denmark, 1849–91; Leonora Lottrup Rasmussen -- 8: Framing the Client's Agency: Generational Layers of Lived Social Work in Finland, 1940–2000; Minna Harjula -- 9: Between Gift and Entitlement: Experiencing Public Social Services and Charitable Food Aid in 2020s Finland; Anna Sofia Salonen -- Part IV: Space, Age and Class as Experience -- 10: Lived, Material and Planned Welfare: Mass-Produced Suburbanity in 1960s and 1970s Metropolitan Finland; Kirsi Saarikangas, Veera Moll, Matti O. Hannikainen -- 11: Children and the Mediated Experiences of the Welfare State: The International Year of the Child (1979) in the Finnish Public Sphere; Heidi Kurvinen -- 12: The Making of the Western Affluent Working Class: Class and Affluence through Postwar Public Discussions and Academic Interpretations; Jussi Lahtinen -- Part V: Experience of Equality and Justice -- 13: Rural (In)Justice: Smallholding as Social Policy in a Modernizing Finland, from 1945 to the 1960s; Ville Erkkilä -- 14: From Survival Mode to Utopian Dreams: Conceptions of Society, Social Planning and Historical Time in 1950s and 1960s Finland; Sophy Bergenheim -- 15: Welfare State in a Fair Society? Post-Industrial Finland as a Case Study; Jubo Saari -- 16: The Experience (and Constitution) of Society in Postwar and Postindustrial Finland, 1960–2020; Pertti Haapala.

This open access book presents a new approach to the history of welfare state. By applying the concepts of experiencing society and the lived welfare state, the collection introduces theoretical, methodological and empirical insights for bridging the everyday life and institutional structures. The chapters analyze how the welfare state as a particular individual-society relationship has become an integral part of living in the modern society. With a long-term perspective, the chapters explore the experience of society which enabled the building and the resilience of a welfare state. As the welfare state is not a universal model of social development but historically unique in different contexts, the book broadens the focus from the Nordic countries to Southern Europe, colonial Asia and post-colonial South America. This collection is essential reading for scholars and students in the social sciences and history, as well as for policymakers and practitioners who face the contemporary and future challenges of the welfare states.

This open access book presents a new approach to the history of welfare state. By applying the concepts of experiencing society and the lived welfare state, the collection introduces theoretical, methodological and empirical insights for bridging the everyday life and institutional structures. The chapters analyze how the welfare state as a particular individual-society relationship has become an integral part of living in the modern society. With a long-term perspective, the chapters explore the experience of society which enabled the building and the resilience of a welfare state. As the welfare state is not a universal model of social development but historically unique in different contexts, the book broadens the focus from the Nordic countries to Southern Europe, colonial Asia and post-colonial South America. This collection is essential reading for scholars and students in the social sciences and history, as well as for policymakers and practitioners who face the contemporary and future challenges of the welfare states

This open access book presents a new approach to the history of welfare state. By applying the concepts of experiencing society and the lived welfare state, the collection introduces theoretical, methodological and empirical insights for bridging the everyday life and institutional structures. The chapters analyze how the welfare state as a particular individual-society relationship has become an integral part of living in the modern society. With a long-term perspective, the chapters explore the experience of society which enabled the building and the resilience of a welfare state. As the welfare state is not a universal model of social development but historically unique in different contexts, the book broadens the focus from the Nordic countries to Southern Europe, colonial Asia and post-colonial South America. This collection is essential reading for scholars and students in the social sciences and history, as well as for policymakers and practitioners who face the contemporary and future challenges of the welfare states